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The External Effect of Urban Schooling Attainment on Workers’ Incomes in Ecuador
Breton, Theodore R. - 2015
We estimate the direct and external effects of levels of schooling on personal income in Ecuador in 2011, using data … for 69,653 individuals in 567 municipalities. Using a Mincerian model that includes municipal levels of schooling and the … size of the municipality and controls for endogeneity, we find that each year of individual schooling raises individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031470
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Providing the right skills to all in China : from "made in China" to "created in China"
Molnár, Margit; Koen, Vincent - 2015
China has made impressive strides in education in recent decades, even though the accumulation of human capital has lagged behind that of physical capital. Going forward, access to and quality of education will be key to sustain economic convergence with the most advanced economies and to offset...
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Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283829
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Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288586
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The impact of HIV/Aids on human capital investment in Sub-Saharan Africa: new evidence
Chicoine, Luke E.; Lyons, Emily; Sahue, Alexia - 2020
prevalence and schooling steepened as mortality risk increased. The reduction in schooling is largest for women, and along the … extensive margin of the schooling decision. The findings indicate that the decline in human capital investment associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012267597
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Entrepreneurship and human capital development in children
Brandt, Kasper; Rutasitara, Longinus; Selejio, Onesmo; … - 2017
operating a non-farm enterprise (NFE) as opposed to working in agriculture relates to child labour and schooling outcomes …
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From wells to wealth? : government transfers and human capital
Acuna, Julio; Balza, Lenin H.; Gomez-Parra, Nicolas - 2022
law in Ecuador that transfers resources to municipalities regardless of their oil-producing status. We find that royalties …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496000
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Urban Agglomeration and CEO Compensation
Francis, Bill - 2012
An underlying assumption in the executive compensation literature is that there is a national labor market for CEOs. The urban economics literature, however, documents higher ability among workers in large metropolitians, which results in a real and stable urban wage premium. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104216
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Schooling and national income : how large are the externalities?
Breton, Theodore R. - In: Education economics 18 (2010) 1, pp. 67-92
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Human capital effects on labour productivity in EU regions
Buendía Azorín, José Daniel; Sánchez de la Vega, … - In: Applied economics 47 (2015) 43/45, pp. 4814-4828
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